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From: Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk>
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Peter Moylan wrote:

> Is there a natural tendency for languages to lose final syllables or
> final consonants? This thread has provided examples in Spanish. French
> lost a lot of final consonants (in speech, but not in writing) centuries
> ago. Some southern Italian dialects have dropped a few final vowels, but
> this does not extend to northern dialects or the mainstream version of
> the language. Portuguese seems to drop all sorts of things.
> 
> Those are all examples in Romance languages. I can't think of any
> examples in Germanic languages, and I don't know enough about other
> language families.

Spoken Danish drops as much as possible. "Synes" => "sys", "trapperne"
=> "trappern", and there are many more examples.

In dk.kultur.sprog (language) we joked with pronouncing
"socialdemokratiet" with three syllables (it has 8).

-- 
Bertel
Kolt, Denmark